Global Tracking
Our global trends network is made up of a diverse range of specialists who track the factors driving change and clarify the relationships between them.
This ever-evolving network of sources enables us to navigate the shifting trends landscape rapidly, and map opportunities for business growth and establish the context for innovation.
Cultural Analysis
The team uses advanced analytical techniques to understand how cultural meaning and expectations are attached to objects and behaviours in the life of consumers. It is a rapid and effective way of understanding which discourses (cultural conversations) and codes (specific design attributes that signify meaning) are emerging and receding in consumer markets.
We connect these emerging cultural concepts with the commercial aims of our clients. We validate our findings with experts attuned to human, visual and technological cultures to establish a sound basis for strategic planning.
Commercial Translation
A highly digestible combination of sharp writing and strong visual organisation, PDD's trends reports provide you with a way to inform and stimulate your blueprint for change.
Understanding how trends are shaping the future of your market is one thing; delivering a well considered proposition which exploits that knowledge is another.
PDD uses a range of creative techniques to bring future scenarios to life, allowing our clients and their customers to experience and react to the shape of things to come. It is this powerful blend of insight and foresight that drives the way we translate trends into real commercial advantage.